New issues

and interesting packs of cards

Artist and designer couple Peter Dunham and Linnea Gits launched in the fall of 2010 a design company in Chicago named Uusi. This company focuses on limited edition and reinterpret classic genres for the design market. Using their fine art and illustration backgrounds, they just design a pack of cards, inspired by their collection, which mainly consists of German and French packs dating from the late 1700's to the early 1900's.
They used the kick starter web site (www.kickstarter.com) and successfully raised the funding needed to print 2500 packs of playing cards. Almost 500 people responded positively, pledging between 10 US$ (one pack) to 860 US$ (144 packs).